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Thanks Cindy. They did the retro peritoneal discectomy yesterday with the cage and allograft. Today is the harder one with laminectomy and other hardware, allograft and autograft. I’ll check back in when I can. This is supposed to be the painful part.

I hope your surgery goes OK. I noticed you talking about MRIs, and thought I should mention that there are dangers associated with MRI scans where a contrast agent is used (MRIs without a contrast agent are fine, it's where a contrast agent is injected that problems can occur).

The contrast agents all contain a toxic metal called gadolinium, which is supposed to be in a safe, chemically inert form that gets excreted by your kidneys before it can do any harm. However, the pharmaceutical companies must have faked the safety testing, because it turns out that the contrast agents all leak the toxic form of gadolinium, and for years people have been going in for MRI scans and coming out with gadolinium poisoning (with doctors blaming their symptoms on a worsening of the condition they were sent in for a scan for). The majority of people are OK, but a minority are getting sick, and the risk gets higher the more contrast MRIs you have. This is a description of the symptoms that people who have an adverse reaction to contrast agent typically experience:

It was without contrast. The surgeon said it was the second worst stenosis he’s worked on. I had CSf leak too, which gave me a whopper of a headache after. It’s taking me some time to come out of it. I think the a anaestatist used ketamine and propofol.

I had the same surgery about 6 or 7 years ago. I was really bad off, I had the backs of 4 vertebra removed to give more room for the spinal cord. The recuperation process depends a lot on your prop condition and on your age. It took me about a year to be fully back to normal (but I have an 8" long scar n my back). I still have chronic nerve damage and need to take Gabapentin for the rest of my life. But I can walk and even jog a little. Beats sitting in a wheelchair with bags for stool and urine at your side!

Good luck, if you want to know more about the procedure, just ask! Oh by the way, you want to have a neuro surgeon as young as possible, and preferably a female one. It is all about the fine motor skills back there!